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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
henceforth you can only fight on the defensive, for thy aggressive power is broken, and you must crumble to pieces until thou art dead—thy rebel spirit crushed to atoms, never to rise again. '
"The operations in the field in Virginia during the year closed with the movement made across the Rapidan by the Army of the Potomac and the assault on the enemy's position at Mine Bun, which, after a feeble effort on the part of the Union forces, resulted in failnre, and the recrossing of the army to its former position. This, of course, neither strengthened the army nor encouraged the hearts of the Northern people; neither were the former disposed to quail under defeat, nor the latter to dispair at disappointment.
American Civil War
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